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Not always actions show the man we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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A long, exact, and serious comedy In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
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Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!
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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.
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Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
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A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.
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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
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